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Methodist Fayette Hospital in Somerville is tentatively slated to close March 27, according to Methodist Healthcare executives who said Thursday, Jan. 8, they made the “difficult decision” because of several years of a declining inpatient volume.

Methodist Fayette Hospital in Somerville is tentatively slated to close March 27, according to Methodist Healthcare executives who said Thursday, Jan. 8, they made the “difficult decision” because of several years of a declining inpatient volume.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former state Rep. Barrett Rich is starting a new career in public service as a member of the Tennessee Board of Parole.

Haslam announced the appointment of the Somerville Republican to the board in August, but it couldn't take effect until after the Nov. 4 general election, when Rich's term in the Legislature officially ended.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A security audit will be performed on all three of the state's youth development centers after a recent breakout and violence at the facility in Middle Tennessee, according to a preliminary report sent to the governor.

NASHVILLE (AP) – State Rep. Barrett Rich says he won't run for another term representing his rural West Tennessee district in the House this year.

The Somerville Republican has served three terms in the lower chamber of the General Assembly. He is a former state trooper who served on then-Gov. Phil Bredesen's security detail and is the current chairman of the House Health Subcommittee.

The state Senate has approved legislation that changes the way certain charter schools are authorized.

The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Dolores Gresham of Somerville was approved 20-12 on Thursday. The House version was approved 62-30 last year. It must now approve technical changes made by the Senate before heading to the governor for his consideration.

The state Senate has approved legislation that changes the way certain charter schools are authorized.

The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Dolores Gresham of Somerville was approved 20-12 on Thursday. The House version was approved 62-30 last year. It must now approve technical changes made by the Senate before heading to the governor for his consideration.

ALL OF OUR COLLEGE PRESIDENTS SHOULD GET SEXY. The Tennessee General Assembly has long been afraid of sex.

When I was a UT student in the late sixties, the Tennessee legislature proposed a law making it illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to view nude art. On the humanities complex plaza, stood and still stands a huge statue of Europa and the Bull – both starkers and anatomically and quite dramatically correct. The morning after the news of the proposed law broke, Europa was wearing a huge bra and the bull a jock strap, fashioned from sheets – lots of them – and placed on the statue by enterprising students in the night.

Republican state lawmakers have proposed a school voucher bill they hope will be acceptable to Gov. Bill Haslam, who has repeatedly said he favors a more limited version of the program that gives parents another option for educating their children.

Republican state lawmakers have proposed a school voucher bill they hope will be acceptable to Gov. Bill Haslam, who has repeatedly said he favors a more limited version of the program that gives parents another option for educating their children.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on a medical helicopter crash that killed a pilot and two hospital workers in West Tennessee.

The report released on the NTSB website shows that the helicopter was headed east when it began to climb and made a right turn to the south, away from the observed course. The helicopter was going 112 mph and was 1,560 feet above sea level at the last data point established by satellite tracking.

Investigators returned Wednesday to the scene of a medical helicopter crash that killed three people in West Tennessee, but an official said the preliminary cause of the crash was not expected for more than a week.

The Jones Clinic is taking steps this summer to accommodate growing patient referrals, with recent hires at key positions and an operational overhaul involving conversion to electronic medical record systems.

NASHVILLE (AP) – The state Senate Education Committee plans a hearing in October to review Tennessee's textbook selection process for K-12 schools.

Republican Sen. Dolores Gresham of Somerville is the committee's chairwoman. She announced this week that the panel will review the role and work of the state's Textbook Commission and Tennessee laws governing textbook selection to help ensure an accurate and unbiased approach.

The Fayette County chapter of West Tennessee Home Builders Association will meet Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 11:30 a.m. at Somerville Bank & Trust, 16790 U.S. 64. U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher will discuss proposed government-sponsored enterprises reform bill. The meeting is open to the public. Cost is $10. Email rterry@mahba.com.

NASHVILLE (AP) – Lawmakers questioned a proposal to create a special panel to authorize charter schools in several Tennessee counties during debate at the state Legislature Tuesday, while a nonprofit group criticized the governor's decision to withdraw his school voucher program.

National Weather Service forecasters are urging people in the western half of Tennessee to be vigilant for possible severe thunderstorms.

The Severe Storms Forecast Center says there is a possibility of severe weather Wednesday and Wednesday night across a broad area of the country’s midsection, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. A special weather statement says there is a slight risk for violent weather Wednesday in an area that includes Tennessee counties from the Mississippi River into the western counties of Middle Tennessee. Forecasters say that could include strong thunderstorms with high winds, heavy rain, large hail and an isolated chance of tornadoes.

NASHVILLE (AP) – The Republican leader carrying Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal to create school vouchers in Tennessee said he's decided to let it die this session because he's tired of the "gamesmanship."

NASHVILLE (AP) – The sponsor of legislation that was competing with Gov. Bill Haslam's to create a school voucher program withdrew her bill on Wednesday after proponents of a broader program decided they want to focus on the governor's plan.

The Republican sponsor of a measure competing with Gov. Bill Haslam’s to create a school voucher program in Tennessee says she’s convinced the initiative should be broader than what the governor is proposing.

NASHVILLE (AP) – The effort to strip Vanderbilt University of its police force over a nondiscrimination policy for student groups has brought up a traffic stop involving the chairwoman of the Senate committee handling the bill, but the lawmaker says she doesn't know why the incident has become part of the debate.

Plans for a higher education presence in Fayette County could take a substantial leap forward early in 2013 after years of general plans for such a presence.

Leaders in Somerville, the county seat, launched the drive for a 26,000-square-foot “Fayette County Higher Education Center” in September. There has been general discussion for such a center the last two years.

NASHVILLE (AP) – Legislation that would allow parents to decide the fate of a struggling school is among several education-related proposals lawmakers are likely to discuss during the 108th Tennessee General Assembly that convenes Tuesday.

The latest sex trafficking case in Memphis federal court involves a Memphis police officer who allegedly brought three women into a Memphis nightclub last November and “announced the women were available as prostitutes to patrons of the nightclub.”

Catholic Charities of West Tennessee (CCWTN) recently expanded its outreach to the poor by launching a new mobile food pantry that will travel throughout the region, providing sustenance to families in need.

Small-business coach Robert Staub couldn’t have chosen a more ideal day and setting than Wednesday, Sept. 28, at Shelby Farms Park to complete his month-long, statewide “Grow Your Business Tour,” bringing strategy, support and camaraderie to Tennessee’s small-business owners.

Wednesday morning for Mid-South animal responders began with the rescue of a domestic cat, one of roughly 40 local animals rescued from floodwaters since a coalition of rescue groups arrived in the Mid-South about two weeks ago.

NASHVILLE (AP) – The Tennessee Highway Patrol's leadership says it wants to rename the agency the Tennessee State Patrol because its role has evolved beyond traffic enforcement in the years since it was established in 1929.

Most members of the Tennessee Legislature are just now getting a crash course in the controversy that has dominated Memphis and Shelby County politics since Thanksgiving.

As the state House and Senate prepare for fast-tracked votes Monday evening in Nashville on schools consolidation legislation, they aren’t getting a lot of help from Democrats or Republicans in the Shelby County legislative delegation.

NASHVILLE (AP) – Some members of the Tennessee Board of Regents acknowledged Wednesday that the process used to select the latest chancellor probably could have been carried out better to deflect criticism.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Some members of the Tennessee Board of Regents acknowledged Wednesday that the process used to select the latest chancellor probably could have been carried out better to deflect criticism.

William Adair’s quad-cab, four-wheel-drive pickup truck is splattered with mud. The office where he parks it out back, a converted country home at the corner of Tenn. 196 and U.S. 72, is littered with maps.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A bill that would require Tennessee jailers to determine whether inmates are in the country illegally and deport them if they are would offer an easy way to fight illegal immigration in the state, the sponsors of the legislation say.

NASHVILLE (AP) - Tennessee jailers would be required to share information about suspected illegal immigrants with immigration and customs enforcement officials under a proposal that has passed the Senate.

NASHVILLE (AP) - Tennessee jailers would be required to share information about suspected illegal immigrants with immigration and customs enforcement officials under a proposal that has passed the Senate.

Following what has become a pattern, the local commercial real estate market in September was salvaged by one large deal that offset an otherwise dreary month.

This time it was Resource Real Estate Inc. to the rescue. The Philadelphia-based company bought the Wyndridge Apartments for $9.5 million Sept. 29 and carried the weight for Shelby County’s commercial activity during the month.

The ownership group is composed of Anna Martin, a Memphis real estate professional, and investors from San Diego.

“We’re going to redevelop the whole property and we’re going to do over $1 million worth of renovations,” Martin said. “We’re going to target all the medical students and the doctors and get a whole new tenant base. We believe it is in a fantastic location because the city of Memphis will be, within the next years, putting in over $1 billion into the medical district. We are in the heart of it.”

The building is at 57 Somerville St., situated among the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, the Memphis VA Medical Center, the Baptist College of Health Sciences, Methodist University Hospital and the Southern College of Optometry.

The investors had a meeting scheduled Thursday afternoon with the Center City Commission to discuss participating in the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) program and to learn about other redevelopment initiatives.

The new owners closed on the property Sept. 11 and began renovations the next day on 20 vacant units. The structure has a total of 128 units, and 80 of those are one-bedroom, one-bath apartments.

Martin said the units would be ideal living quarters for medical students or crash pads for doctors and other health care professionals.

Martin, who is an owner of Trinity Property Management, linked up with three investors from San Diego to buy the property.

“I buy properties that are distressed,” she said. “I rehab them and then I resell them to out-of-state investors. That’s how I came across these gentlemen because they are in the same type of business. They really liked my management group and the way we manage properties and how we turn a lot of areas around.

“We did business for over a year and a half together. We decided to form a corporation and then we found this building. They are really strong in the financial sector and starting companies, where my company is really strong in the management. They felt that I could add value in managing this property right. It’s a great property. It just wasn’t managed correctly.”

Martin said within three to six months, the lobby will be renovated. A new Web site will be launched for the property along with a marketing campaign. A new paint job and other upgrades are planned for the exterior.

“Eventually what we are going to do is get rid of all the outside air conditioning units,” Martin said. “We’re going to go HVAC, central heating and cooling, but that’s going to require quite a bit of money and that’s going to be stage two.”

Wick Moorman admitted that if he had traveled to Fayette County earlier this year, he might as well have shown up wearing a Darth Vader costume. That’s because Moorman, the CEO of Norfolk Southern Corp., realized he and his company were viewed back then as evil overlords.

The land where Norfolk Southern Corp. wants to build an intermodal yard was annexed Monday night by the town of Rossville, paving the way for the railroad’s proposed multimillion-dollar, multi-acre facility.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Lawmakers from both parties agree that K-12 education in Tennessee should be a priority, but they disagree over legislation that would fund it out of an education budget separate from the rest of the state's spending plan.

The third of the month is one of the busiest days for Super Drugs in Somerville, but owner Whit Middlecoff set aside time Wednesday afternoon to talk to U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn about government policies that cause hardships for his small business.

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., is spending the Senate’s Memorial Day recess hosting a series of roundtable discussions in Tennessee about the issue of health care. He will be in Memphis today.

Corker’s stops in the coming days will include health care roundtables in Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis and Jackson, as well as Sumner, Putnam, Marion, Fayette, Hardeman and Dickson counties. Corker will be in Memphis today for a health care roundtable at 11 a.m. at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center. Later in the day, he’ll attend a health care roundtable at Methodist Fayette Hospital in Somerville.

A grand opening ceremony will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. for the University Place Senior Building, part of the new University Place development on the site of the former Lamar Terrace public housing property.

NASHVILLE (AP) - The sponsor of a proposal to change the Tennessee Constitution to allow the state to impose greater limits on abortions has given notice that she plans to try to bring the measure up for a full House floor vote.

NASHVILLE (AP) - The House sponsor of a proposal to change the Tennessee Constitution to allow the state to impose greater limits on abortions is trying to rally enough votes to bring the measure to a full floor vote.

NASHVILLE (AP) - The Legislature's Black Caucus has lodged a complaint with House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh about a Republican member's exclusion of a Democratic lawmaker who wanted to co-sponsor an anti-abortion resolution.

NASHVILLE (AP) - A resolution that would change the state's constitution to allow more limits on abortion has failed again in a House subcommittee, but supporters say they aren't giving up hope this year.

The past will meet the future in Fayette County this year when one of the area's oldest banks opens shop in front of the area's newest retailer.

The Bank of Fayette County, a community bank founded in 1905 and headquartered in Moscow, is poised to break ground next month on a branch in Oakland. The bank's eighth locale, it will occupy an outparcel of the new Wal-Mart Supercenter, set to open in March on heavily trafficked U.S. 64.

Clear Channel Outdoor Inc. has filed suit in Shelby County Chancery Court against a property owner stuck with a dilapidated brick industrial building near Downtown Memphis that dates back to 1901.

Much of the value of the property - and the reason for the lawsuit - can be found on the building's roof. That's where a billboard towers high above the landscape and greets drivers on nearby Interstate 240.

Leadership Memphis has named Glenn Sessoms its board chair for 2007-2008. Sessoms is currently the vice president of the FedEx Memphis Hub Day Sort, where he manages 3,500 employees, four directors, 25 senior managers and 150 managers. He is a twice-decorated Five Star Award winner, the highest level of recognition at FedEx. Sessoms also is a 1997 graduate of the Leadership Memphis Executive Program.

All roads lead somewhere. And in Fayette County, they are leading to more growth, especially if four separate highway projects come to fruition.

The most immediate - and definite - project is the extension of Tenn. Highway 385 into Piperton, which, according to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, should be open to traffic by June 30. Also in Piperton, U.S. Highway 72 from the Collierville city limits to the Mississippi state line is scheduled to be complete by about October.

Of the nine municipalities in Fayette County, one town in particular has jumped way out in front of the rest.

For the past several years, the growth Oakland has experienced only can be described as phenomenal. The town, which lies about 20 miles east of the Shelby County line, has 17 new subdivisions under construction.

A plan proposed by Gov. Phil Bredesen in September to increase Tennessee's high school graduation rate could shine light on something that's been going on in Memphis for some time.

Bredesen's plan would offer free tuition to high school graduates who attend two-year community colleges, helping them get jobs that range in pay from $25,000 to $30,000 almost immediately after they graduate. The governor's plan would add much-needed tuition funding to a program that was implemented in 1997 at State Technical Institute at Memphis, now Southwest Tennessee Community College.

93. Fall Vesta Winners Announced - Tuesday, October 03, 2006 The Fall Vesta Home Show has announced several awards, including best of show to Eads-based Polston Construction and Landscaping Inc. for its Chateau de Montclair home in the Cloisters of Hickory Withe subdivision in Fay

For the second year in a row, the Memphis Area Home Builder's Association's Fall Vesta Home Show will take place in the rural county just east of Memphis, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 15 in The Cloisters of Hickory Withe subdivision off of Tenn. 196, which crosses U.S. 64.

It's official: Bell & Associates Construction LP has been named the construction manager/general contractor for renovations that will convert the Memphis post office and former U.S. Customs House building on Front Street into a home for the University of Memphis' Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.

In April 1997, an inmate at the Fayette County Jail in Somerville shot and killed a sheriff's deputy who had driven him from the jail to a dentist's appointment.

The inmate, Kennath Artez Henderson, now sits on death row, but the horror of the incident that took Deputy Tommy Bishop's life was a startling reminder of the danger lurking in Fayette County's system for transporting inmates.

Methodist Healthcare's latest innovation took place far from a laboratory or an operating room. It's called My M.D. and is in the fast-growing town of Oakland in Fayette County.

My M.D. opened last week in a shopping center off of U.S. 64, which runs right through the tiny hamlet. The response from the people who live in the town of about 2,500 was tremendous the first week the facility was open, according to those who work there.

The eye-in-the-sky view is becoming a more common tool for land brokers and rural real estate agents - so much so that the Tennessee chapter of the Realtors Land Institute (RLI) is bringing a Global Positioning System class to the Memphis Area Association of Realtors (MAAR) at 6393 Poplar Ave. The class is from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. June 13 and 14.